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More Mythic+ Midnight Beta Season 1 Dungeon Tuning – Development Notes

Blizzard has posted significant Season 1 Mythic+ dungeon tuning for the next Midnight Beta build including the recently announced new Affix.

Greetings!

Midnight Season 1 dungeon testing continues on Wednesday, January 14 at 3:00 p.m. PST (6:00 p.m. EDT / 12:00 a.m. CEST) and runs until Monday, January 19 at 10:00 a.m. PST (1:00 p.m. EDT / 7:00 p.m. CEST). Please note that this schedule may be adjusted if we encounter any technical issues during testing.

During the test period you’ll be able to acquire and customize Mythic Keystones by talking to the Keystone Vendor in Stormwind, Orgrimmar and Silvermoon. The nearby Dungeon Teleports NPC will assist you with transportation. Throughout beta, all Midnight dungeons will be available for testing on Normal and Heroic difficulty. Seasonal dungeons will rotate with each new test period.

For this round, the following seasonal dungeons will be open for testing on Heroic, Mythic and Mythic+ difficulty:

Magisters’ Terrace

Maisara Caverns

Nexus-Point Xenas

Windrunner Spire

Algeth’ar Academy

Seat of the Triumvirate

Pit of Saron

Skyreach

Provided that the items equipped on your character are at least item level 226, they will scale automatically to a higher level as needed to support Dungeon testing.

Affix Update

New Affix: Lindormi’s Guidance (Active from keystone level 2 through 5)

Lindormi guides players, weakening select non-boss enemies with Temporal Sands and preventing player deaths from reducing time remaining.

You can read more about our philosophy behind the affix in this post: New Mythic+ Affix: Lindormi’s Guidance

Xal’atath’s Bargain Affixes

Now becomes active at keystone level 5 instead of 4.

Dungeon Updates

Magisters’ Terrace

Seranel Sunlash

Runic Mark

Improved visibility

Degentrius

Devouring Entropy

No longer dispellable

Now has varying durations per target

Entropy Orbs

Now launch in fixed directions and display a visual indicator of their path.

Replaced Root effect with a 70% snare

Now despawn after hitting a player

Maisara Caverns

Hex Guardian

Searing Presence

Periodic damage reduced by 80%

Now pulses every 1 sec instead of 5 sec

Magma Surge

Damage reduced by 20%

Vordaza

Lingering Dread

Duration reduced from 4 sec to 3 sec

Nexus-Point Xenas

Corewright Arcanist

Now periodically channels Arcane Explosion

Corewarden Nyssara

Eclipsing Step

Now targets 2 players, increased from 1

Initial damage reduced by 20%

Now leaves a Damage Over Time effect for 8 sec

Corewright Kasreth

Arcane Zap

Cast time removed

Windrunner Spire

General

Adjusted the locations of Spectral Axethrowers and Devoted Woebringers

Emberdawn

Increased the size of the Flaming Twister formation visual

Derelict Duo

Spattered

No longer stacks

Splattering Spew

Damage increased by 9%

Heaving Yank

Fixed an issue where the spell can pull an unmarked target

Can now targets tank

Commander Kroluk

Reckless Leap

Periodic damage no longer classified as a Bleed

Periodic damage reduced by 33%

Restless Heart

Gust Strike

Renamed to Tempest Slash

The damage vulnerability is now Physical and only removable by touching a Turbulent Arrow

Knockback distance reduced by 33%

Squall Leap

Initial damage reduced by 17%

Storming Soulfont

Size reduced by 10%

Formation time reduced to 3.5 sec from 4 sec

Stormscatter Orbs

Removed

Gust Shot

Explosion damage reduced by 33%

Added a periodic damage effect

Spellguard Magus

Fixed an issue that caused unintended overlaps of Spellguard’s Protection and Arcane Salvo

Flesh Behemoth

Health reduced by 13%

Bloated Lasher

Health reduced by 8%

Creeping Spindleweb

Poison Spray

Now targets one player instead of two

Devoted Woebringer

Pulsing Shriek

Absorb shield increased by 10%

Ardent Cutthroat

Shadowrive

Damage increased by 9%

Algeth’ar Academy

Crawth

Firestorm now afflicts Crawth with Blistering Fire, causes it to pulse Fire damage every 2 sec

Pit of Saron

Garfrost

Health increased by 14%

Melee damage increased by 21%

Glacial Overload

Now originates from a forge rather than Garfrost

Garfrost no longer moves to the forge to activate the ability

Ore Chunks

Reduced travel time by 17%

Increased impact radius by 22%

Throw Ore

Reduced the cast time to 2 sec from 3 sec

Orebreaker

Damage increased by 17%

Cryostomp

Damage increased by 13%

Scourgelord Tyrannus

Scourge Plaguespreader health increased by 17%

Rotling health increased by 10%

Rimebone Coldwraith

Permeating Chill

Now targets two players

Damage reduced by 11%

Leaping Geist

Leaping Maul

Now cannot target players who are out of combat

Plungetalon Gargoyle

Health reduced by 6%

Stoneskin absorb shield increased by 25%

Seat of the Triumvirate

Famished Broken

Rupture

Number of missiles reduced from 4 to 2

Void-Infused Destroyer

Eruption

Now leaves behind a Damage Over Time effect on players for 8 sec

Zuraal the Ascended

Coalesced Void

Number of Coalesced Void reduced from 3 to 2

Health increased by 50%

Saprish

Health on Saprish and his pets increased by 10%

L’ura

Health increased by 15%

Skyreach

High Sage Viryx

Lens Flare

No longer targets tank

Thanks for testing and sharing your thoughts with us! We’ll be reviewing your feedback closely and will continue to post updates throughout the beta as changes roll out.

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